By Express News Service
BARIPADA: In yet one more occasion of man-animal battle, a 30-year-old man was trampled to demise by a wild tusker on Friday morning in Bangiriposi vary underneath Baripada territorial division. The deceased has been recognized as Ratha Behera, a local of Jamdapal village.
Sources mentioned Ratha went to the fields early within the morning to attend name of nature when a wild tusker attacked him, killing him on the spot. On noticing the physique, locals knowledgeable forest personnel of Bangiriposi vary who together with Bangiriposi police rushed to the spot and recovered the physique for post-mortem.
Contacted, Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF) Baripada territorial division Dillip Kumar Barik mentioned the forest division instantly supplied a compensation of `40,000 out of `4 lakh, to the kin of the deceased. The remainder of the compensation will probably be supplied after ample paperwork are submitted by the household.
However, locals have blamed the Forest division for its failure to maintain watch on motion of the wild elephants who’re on a rampage in Bangiriposi vary for fairly a while now. Earlier, elephants of Similipal forest and Dalma sanctuary of Jharkhand used to trespass into human settlements and broken property of residents price lakhs within the vary. “The Forest department claims to have adequate manpower and protection assistants to provide 24 hour service in keeping a watch on the movement of elephants, but the ground reality is different,” claimed locals Alok Swain and Pritish Mohanta.
According to official studies, as many as 12 individuals have been killed in jumbo assaults between January and October this yr. Though the Forest division has engaged safety help together with forest personnel, Sabuja Bahini, Vana Surakshya Samitis and Gaja Sathis, there was no respite from elephant assaults. Baripada territorial division has reported a lot of the circumstances among the many 5 divisions of the district.
BARIPADA: In yet one more occasion of man-animal battle, a 30-year-old man was trampled to demise by a wild tusker on Friday morning in Bangiriposi vary underneath Baripada territorial division. The deceased has been recognized as Ratha Behera, a local of Jamdapal village.
Sources mentioned Ratha went to the fields early within the morning to attend name of nature when a wild tusker attacked him, killing him on the spot. On noticing the physique, locals knowledgeable forest personnel of Bangiriposi vary who together with Bangiriposi police rushed to the spot and recovered the physique for post-mortem.
Contacted, Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF) Baripada territorial division Dillip Kumar Barik mentioned the forest division instantly supplied a compensation of `40,000 out of `4 lakh, to the kin of the deceased. The remainder of the compensation will probably be supplied after ample paperwork are submitted by the household.
However, locals have blamed the Forest division for its failure to maintain watch on motion of the wild elephants who’re on a rampage in Bangiriposi vary for fairly a while now. Earlier, elephants of Similipal forest and Dalma sanctuary of Jharkhand used to trespass into human settlements and broken property of residents price lakhs within the vary. “The Forest department claims to have adequate manpower and protection assistants to provide 24 hour service in keeping a watch on the movement of elephants, but the ground reality is different,” claimed locals Alok Swain and Pritish Mohanta.
According to official studies, as many as 12 individuals have been killed in jumbo assaults between January and October this yr. Though the Forest division has engaged safety help together with forest personnel, Sabuja Bahini, Vana Surakshya Samitis and Gaja Sathis, there was no respite from elephant assaults. Baripada territorial division has reported a lot of the circumstances among the many 5 divisions of the district.